USS Spruance conducts replenishment-at-sea with USS Abraham Lincoln

240811-N-WV584-1229 PACIFIC OCEAN (August 11, 2024) Lt. j.g. Austin Morretta from Medford, N.Y., watches from the flight deck tower as an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 14, lands on the flightdeck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111). Spruance, assigned to the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joey Sitter)